Whipping around like an out-of-control fire hose, a mammoth jet of charged particles gushing from a collapsed star is varying its shape and brightness more rapidly than any other known jet in the heavens.
GUSHER. X-ray images taken in November 2000 (top) and April 2002 show the rapid variation in a jet of particles (top right in each image) associated with the Vela pulsar (lower left in the images).
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